Quotes 221 till 240 of 286.
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The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
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The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
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The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
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The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
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There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
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There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
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There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
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There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
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There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
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Thoreau gave an otherwise hidden passion and drew from woods and water the love affair with earth and sky he'd recorded in his journals.
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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
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To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
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To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
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To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.
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